V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905

DRAFT AGENDA OF THE THIRD PARTY
CONGRESS{3}

A)Tactical questions.

1.Armed uprising.

[2.Participation of Social-Democracy in a provisional
revolutionary
			 government.]{1}

2.Preparations for open political action by Social-Democracy.

3.Social-Democracy’s attitude to the government’s policy on the eve of
the revolution, during the revolution and after it.

4.Attitude to the peasant movement.

B)Attitude to other parties and trends.

5.Attitude to the splinter section of the Russian Social-Democratic
Labour Party.

6.Attitude to non-Russian Social-Democratic parties and organisations
in Russia.

7.Attitude to the liberals.

8.Attitude to the Socialist-Revolutionaries.

C)Party organisation.

9.Party Rules.

10.Relations between workers and intellectuals in Party organisations.

D)Internal Party work.

11.Delegates’ reports.

12.Improvement of propaganda and agitation.

[13.May
			     Day.]{2}

14.Election of functionaries.

15.Procedure governing the publication of minutes and entry into
office of new institutions.

{1}The text in brewer in square brackets is crossed out in the
MS.—Ed.

{2}The text in brevier in square brackets is crossed out in the
MS.—Ed.

{3}The draft agenda was discussed at the third, afternoon, sitting on
April 13 (26), 1905.

Variantsof the draft agenda are published in the “Preparatory
Material” section of Vol. 9 of the Fifth Russian edition of theCollected Works(pp. 375–78).

Thisdraft was circulated among the delegates for comments, and then
with slight changes in the wording was read out at the Congress as the
draft signed by Lenin, M. M. Litvinov (Kuznetsov) and A. A. Bogdanov
(Maximov).

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